FIRST 10 DAYS // PRIMI 10 GIORNI

Ok, after days here we are with a summary of ten days traveling. As said these are also our holidays dedicated to surf, exploring, just traveling and to be on the road. At the end we want to start real operations by October.

Let’s start saying that ten days being 4 people onboard of the Falcon has been tough but we went through it despite the usual “move-put-take away-move again-things” moves which we now master! Bertola’s Brothers took part to it and we had a lot of laugh togheter. The hardest tasks were “tetris” combinations to access services and a bed-dining table, but we all were able to find our spot and handle it within each othes activities like house-keeping.

Go to the toilet at night was like Indiana Jones escaping from traps: water tank and bottles, shoes, steps and corners. Luckily without anything broken we traveled safe to see some known and less known surf areas.

After leaving Serre-Ponçon lake area and ending up surfing Les Estagnots, one of Hossegor’s area spots. Nice area with a small group of houses and few services, but open for a free caravan park and a main Camping-car Park with automatic registration at arrival (no gatekeeper just fences) at walk distance from the spot, a safe beach break, with a very long walk. The beach is quite crowdy in this period of the year but we manage couple of surf sessions to remove the rust!

From here we wanted to move closer to Spain border, reaching Hendaye, getting the end of a swell. We stop easily behind the main seaside walk, very quiet and less than a minute far from the beach. Here the sand welcome us and the swell give us the chance to surf couple of days. Given the period of the year we are looking mostly for beach breaks as back to training! Paddling is always so hard when your last surf was months ago and we need to get fit for more consistent swells.

The 15th of August the swell is definitely gone, and we travel western, to Zarautz: finally Spain. The Falcon lands us to a nice camping on top of the main spots. Conditions aren’t the best: messy and rainy. We dedicate ourselves to water charges/discarges and using the spacious services of the Gran Camping. Some of the pics are self explanatory I would say!

The road to the spot is anyhow impressive and wonderful: a long stair that fall down from the cliff to the beach. The way back is not that nice, especially strengthless for surfing! It was a nice training for everybody!

From Zarautz, we wanted to see one of the most famous and nice left in Europe: Mundaka. The town that provides the spot’s name is located on the west side of the bay and it has quite small roads but our Falcon, without crashing any building, brought us for the night close enough to see the spot partially working in the morning. We surfed anyhow the other side of the bay (La Playa de la Laida) getting advantage of the low tide condition in the afternoon. We all got some good waves and It was also good for Filippo at his third day in a life on white washes, but with yet a couple of good small waves! He had a lot of fun!

Alessandro had probably his best session here: some long waves gave him the thrilling of trimming, asking for more and more, ending his last day traveling with us, extremely exhausted! Well done man!

Time flies for Bertola’s brother as their bus leaves from Bilbao, Monday 20th. Their long trip will end up only the day after at noon after two bus lifts. Say hello to each other’s has been emotional, particularly for Nix, with water eyes and a lot of good memories collected between brothers. We do thank them for traveling with us in these days, for the patience and for endless Munchkin’s matches! See you soon!

For us, the travel starts here.

We set down couple of days in free overnight parking in la Playa de la Arena, outside of Bilbao. Surfing one full day, and arranging a summary, of the costs, of the travel and so on. The place has a very nice dune system that run coastal to the beach and the ocean. Such a pity the big industrial area far away but not that much. A place with 2 souls: in front of you an amazing greenful sea landscape, behind your shoulder the Simpson’s Sprigfield.

These first days have been quite hectic. Falcon has been tested at his maximum capability with 4 people on board and yes, there is something to tight and release but it is doing definetely his job, especially now that we scaled to just 2 persons and 2 dogs: it is feeling yet like a villa 🙂

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Hola friends! Wooow! Wonderful good news from you, very happy to read. I’ve felt your emotion reading the goodbye to the brothers 🙂 your report is precise and reach of prescious hints for van travellers and surfers. Great job! A big big hug, see you very very soon with our Garbo and all the band. Kisses.
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